Pennsylvania R. Co. v. Palmer
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. This cause comes here upon a writ of error by defendant below to review a judgment entered by the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York upon a verdict in favor of the plaintiff below for $1,000 damages for having been ejected from the train of the defendant.
1Opinion of the Court
TOWNSEND, Circuit Judge.
Upon the argument of the assignments of error, the claim that the conductor was justified iñ ejecting the plaintiff was not pressed.
The facts in the case material to the disposition of the questions raised are as follows: The plaintiff originally purchased a ticket to Chester, Pa., and return. He stopped at Chester, and then purchased a ticket to Baltimore and return. He went to Baltimore, and, on the return trip to Chester, handed the conductor an envelope containing the two return tickets, and said he wished to stop at Chester. The conductor took the tickets and went…
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